Elon Musk Gives Over $70 Million More To Help GOP
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Elon Musk is helping Republicans keep the House and Senate.
He just dumped $76 million into his Super PAC to help the GOP.
He has now given over $442 million this election cycle.
Elon Musk poured another $76 million into his super PAC in the first half of October, lifting his political giving this election cycle above $442 million as he bankrolls Republicans’ push to hold Congress, Politico reported Thursday.
That sum already exceeds the roughly $290 million Musk spent in 2024, and Politico reported that no other donor in modern American politics has come close to matching it. Musk, the world’s richest person, is the cycle’s top individual contributor by a wide margin.
The new money went to America PAC, which Musk controls and which now ranks among the best-funded outside groups of the midterms. It has flooded competitive House and Senate contests with online ads, direct mail and text messages, spending tens of millions of dollars so far, according to Politico.
Musk PAC has mostly focused on helping Republicans in Senate races.
The PAC’s largest spending is in the Texas Senate race.
Musk’s PAC has reported about $68.6 million in independent expenditures during the midterm cycle, mainly focused on competitive Senate races, FEC records compiled by the PaidForPolitics tracker showed.
The group’s largest spending has focused on the Texas Senate race, with $27.9 million spent so far opposing Democratic candidate James Talarico and another $4.8 million supporting his GOP opponent, Ken Paxton.
America PAC has also spent about $9.3 million on Ohio’s Senate race, followed by $7.7 million in Michigan, $2.7 million in Iowa, and $2.1 million in Maine, primarily on opposing Democratic candidates.
Red wave!
